The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1887-06-16
[Independent.1
The Anti-SaIOOp CaUSe.

publican movement took organized
form in national convention, held in
Chicago. 1t did not have very. cor
dat welcome Saloon men opposed
it, as matter of course, the Demo-
cratic party poured contempt upon it,
Third Party Prohibitionists ridiculed
it, and National Republican leaders
were for the most part silent lockers
on. But earnest men took part in it,
with the assurance that the large NOR
al element in the Republican party
would give them sympathy and active
support when the character and pur-
poses of the movement were sufficient
ly,understood. To arouse and organ
ize the sentiment of the party on this
line, and to induce party leaders to
recognize and :. promote the cause in
whose interest the conference was
held, National Committee was or
ganized, with the Hon. Albert Griffin
as Chairman, and since November last
it has had its headquarters in this city,
such men as Judge Noah Davis, and
ex-Postmaster-General James serving
as members upon it. Last week a
meeting was held in Cooper Union, in
this city, under its auspices. Judge
Davis presided, and he and ex-Secre-
tary Window made strong speeches,
showing the necessity of making war
upon the saloon by the most effective
means at command, and declaring that
the Republican party must and will
enter into the irrepressible conflict on
the side of morality and humanity
against the curse Of curses. Secretary
Window put the case with great force
in the sentence: "This Nation can
not endure half drunk and half sober
any more than it could endure half
free and half slave; and Judge Davis
put it hopefully in these ringing
words:
''If the position shall be assumed
by the Republican party which we
invite it to assume there is before it a
certain triumph. 1t may come slow
ly, but I think it will come fast. |
hear from all parts of the country
the sentiment that is agitating the
hearts of the people in favor of strik-
ing down the saloon. 1t is gathering
like storm. 1t may be preceded by
slight fall of +. in It will come
then IN the gusts of the wind; it will
grow to be the blast of the cyclone
and it will sweep the saloon out Of ex-
istence, leaving our nation freer from
vice, shame, crime, pauperism, infamy
and misery than it ever has been be-
FORE"
This is rhetoric; but it is not mere
rhetoric 1t is not AN empty senti-
ment, an impracticable idea, which
animates this anti-saloon movement.
These honored and enthusiastic Re
publicans are not misled by enthusi-
asm, blinded by zeal, nor are they
practically alone in their willingness
to declare war in the name of the Re-
publican party against the monstrous
tyrant who lives to rule, and rules to
ruin. The popular vote for prohibi-
ton in Iowa and Kansas and Michi-
gan and Rhode Island and Ohio; the
increasing demand for constitutional
prohibition, local option, and other
temperance legislation; the passage Of
hygiene bills and other anti-saloon
laws; the growing hostility of the
press to the traffic; and the weight
and character of public men who ar
ray themselves against our great NOR
al, social and political pest, show how
the anti-saloon cause is marching on.
In September, in the Chicago Con-
vention the movement had the voice
and support of ex-Secretary Window,
Senator Blair, and Commissioner
Price; the Cooper Union meeting
drew expressions of approval from
scores of Republican leaders from all
parts Of the country. Senators Hoar,
Edmunds, Blair, Morrill,, and Wilson;
Governors Larrabee, Martin, and Fos-
ter; Congressman John D. Long, Pet
tibone, Henry Cabot Lodge, Buell.,
Buckley, and Gallinger; President
Fairchild. of Berea College, and Ben
son j. LOSING, the historian, are
among those who used this occasion
to make public declaration Of their |